Word: teaneck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lili Grossman was a former Martha Graham dancer who married an entertainer turned exterminator and raised Phoebe and her sister in the subdued suburban environs of Teaneck, N.J. Phoebe was a shy child. "If you remember," she says, "in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes were on crooked, whose glasses were really thick and hung sideways. Their hair was never right, and their clothes didn't match, and they looked like little lost souls wandering down the hallway. That...
...Some of your devotion to public service comes from your father's career as city manager of Teaneck, N.J. What ideas did he pass...
...into the trap of treating his subject with simpering adoration, a common pitfall of Hollywood biographies. But Carey's impassive storytelling is dry, relying too often on Loos' detailed diary to the exclusion of analysis. Do we really need to know that, "That afternoon, while Gladys was still in Teaneck, she prepared a lunch of toast and Lipton's chicken noodle soup and started her new diary with a list of New Year's resolutions...
...phone has been ringing off the hook at Kayode Owens' house in Teaneck, , N.J. Owens, 17, a black football star and high school senior with strong SAT scores (1,320 out of a possible 1,600), has told his mother to let it ring. Representatives of Cornell, Columbia, Swarthmore, Yale, Brown, Bowdoin and Harvard -- all of which have accepted him for next fall -- have been urging him to come. Bowdoin flew him to Brunswick, Me., gratis, for a two-day love feast for minority prospects, complete with a dance at the Afro-American house and a coq au vin dinner...
...Teaneck...